Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something added or attached to an entity of greater importance or size; an adjunct. synonym: attachment.
- noun Biology A part or organ, such as an arm, leg, tail, or fin, that is joined to the axis or trunk of a body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is appended to something as a proper part of it; a subordinate attached part of anything.
- noun Something added to a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
- noun Synonyms Adjunct, attachment, appurtenance, addition, concomitant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
- noun (Biol.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an external body part that projects from the body
- noun a natural
prolongation orprojection from a part of anyorganism - noun a part that is joined to something larger
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an external body part that projects from the body
- noun a part that is joined to something larger
- noun a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
Etymologies
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Examples
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His spider messenger guessed my nickname appendage so I gave him the faith of nightfall, slipped out of my solitude which was an ill-fitting hand-me-down crumble from Cherokee grandmother's cedar scented trousseau.
Exact Recitations Misti Rainwater-Lites 2011
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Only if your smegma infested appendage is looking for a place to hide.
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Now, if the extra appendage is hindering the dog, or is going to cause damage or injury to her, then yes, by all means, perform the surgery.
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An appendage is either a suffix (90 percent of the time) or a prefix (10 percent of the time).
How To Protect Your Email From Hackers | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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The random music appendage is the kind of thing that makes me laugh out loud.
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Deron i hope that right side club like appendage is not giving you grief, with all them animals by your side i doubt it
thank you India, Sheila, Daryl, Cindy!!! | clusterflock 2008
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I am not one to bear a grudge, as my readers will know, but I think it worth recording that while my moustache spends the summer as nature intended, grazing in the Welland Valley – the finest pasture in England – Thurso's facial appendage is packed off to the Atom Plant at Dounreay, where it is bombarded with gamma rays or something equally beastly to make it grow to an unnatural size.
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And TV Addict, if for no other reason than following the saga of T-Bag's hand (you won't BELIVE where the appendage is NOW!), you must get back in the game.
PRISON BREAK: To Watch or Not to Watch? | the TV addict 2007
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The notion that a shadow could be cut off like an appendage is enchanting.
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The design to murder the king he calls the appendage of the plot:
History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second Charles James Fox 1777
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